Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
~By James M. Barrie ~
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
~By Adam Ant ~
I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
~By Meg Tilly ~
I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.
~By David Friedman ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
~By Sallust ~
My ambition is peace and perfection.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.
~By David Hasselhoff ~
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
~By Anna Held ~
I am still full of ambition.
~By Jan Timman ~
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
~By Peter Straub ~
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
~By Georges Bizet ~
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
~By Paul Auster ~
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
~By Bob Marley ~
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
~By Barack Obama ~
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.
~By Harry Essex ~
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
~By Charles Cotton ~
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
~By George W. Bush ~
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
~By George W. Bush ~
My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
~By James F. Cooper ~
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
~By Robert Burton ~
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
~By Jim Henson ~
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
~By Annette Funicello ~
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
~By Helen Reddy ~
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
~By Derek Jarman ~
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
~By Petrarch ~
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
~By Michael Korda ~
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
~By H. G. Wells ~
I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.
~By James McAvoy ~
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
~By William Hazlitt ~
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
~By Noah Webster ~
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
~By Placido Domingo ~
I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.
~By Corin Nemec ~
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
~By Susan Sontag ~
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
~By Bob Edwards ~
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
~By William Feather ~
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
~By John Ruskin ~
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
~By James L. Buckley ~
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
~By Omar Bongo ~
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
~By John Webster ~
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
~By Richard Linklater ~
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.
~By George Galloway ~
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
~By Frances Burney ~
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Big results require big ambitions.
~By Heraclitus ~
My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
~By James Joyce ~
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
~By Ally Sheedy ~
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
~By Jose Saramago ~
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
~By Shane Warne ~
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
~By Bob Riley ~
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~By Herbert Kaufman ~
You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.
~By Marcus Allen ~
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
~By Samuel Dash ~
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
Ambition aspires to descend.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
~By Ravi Shankar ~
For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.
~By Lori Guinn ~
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
~By John Strachan ~
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
~By Louise Fletcher ~
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